Following last weekend’s R&R International Limited’s 11-stage cycling in the National Park, the company will be sponsoring the 26th edition of their road race, a 40-mile course that rides off today.
The race is scheduled to commence at 07:30h, with riders set to take up the starting line in front of the Ocean View Hotel on the Rupert Craig Highway. The wheelsmen will all journey to Mahaica and back to the starting point where the race will conclude.
The top guns will be out tomorrow for the R&R International Ltd’s 40-mile road race
This marks a change in the usual route for the event, which previously utilised the West Bank Demerara. Also the distance has returned to 40 miles from the 25-mile length that was used last year.
This year competition is expected to be of high calibre with their already being different fortunes amongst the riders.
In the spot light, there is Team Evolution’s Paul Denobrega who has been superb in the races held so far, having been consistent in the top three positions and winning the R&R International Ltd featured 35-lap in the National Park, he will want to add this title under his belt.
Young We Stand United Andrew Hicks, having won his first race in the senior category, is pumped and gearing to take this title and his second road race win of the season.
Team Coco’s Hamza Eastman, like Denobrega has been consistent in the top three but after winning his first race of the season on Thursday, his confidence level is high and the mechanical problems of which he was faced with are sorted out.
Dangerous oppositions expected to be in the mix for the title includes, Team Cocos Jamaul John and Stephano “Sunny” Husbands, Team Evolution’s Orville Hinds and Michael Anthony, as well as Linden Bauxite Flyers’ Shaquel Agard and Continental Rider Geron Williams.
In the previous edition of this event, Team Evolution’s Raul Leal stopped the clock in a time of one hour, two minutes and 17 seconds (01:02:17). Leal was trailed by Raphael Leung, Javon Crawford, Alonzo Ambrose, Andrew Hicks and Romelo Crawford respectively. By virtue of placing second overall, Leung was adjudged the first junior to complete the course. Hicks was second in the junior category and Javon Crawford third. Robin Persaud won the veterans category ahead of Andrew Spencer and Warren McKay respectively, while Ozia McAulley was the winner of the mountain bike category. Second in this category was Keon Thomas while Shane Bourne placed third. The female category was won by United Kingdom-based Guyanese Clair Fraser-Green.
